Lot Details
Lot 140
Vienna Secession Three Panel Wallpaper Screen Designed by Ludwig H. Jungnickel
Possibly executed by P. Piette, Bubenitsch for the children's room at Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium, circa 1905-11
Height 5 feet, width of largest panel 27 inches, width of two panels 24 inches, depth 1 inch.
Literature:
Christian Witt-Dörring and Janis Staggs, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty, Neue Galerie, New York, 2017, p.389, image 27, and Moderne Bauformen, vol. 13, Jan.-Jun. 1914, p. 25, for an illustration of the children's room.
Verlag Johannes Heyn, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Ein Leben für die Kunst, image GG.29/2 p. 355, for an illustration of the panel decoration.
As a member of the Wiener Werkstätte, artist Ludwig H. Jungnickel (1881-1965) designed textiles, wallpaper and postcards. Jungnickel trained at the School of Applied Arts in Munich and later at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1908, he first exhibited his woodblock prints in Vienna. Famous for his exoticism and dynamic animal depictions, he used inspiration from the zoo animals in Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna and other European zoos.
Jungnickel worked with Gustav Klimt to design the interiors of the Palais Stoclet in Brussells, which was planned and designed by Josef Hoffmann for Belgian industrialist Adolphe Stoclet. Completed in 1911, the palace was the epitome of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Stoclet commissioned Josef Hoffmann to construct the vast palace and was the largest commission for the Wiener Werkstätte. Jungnickel received the important commission to create a wall frieze in the children's room at the Palais for Stoclet's two sons, which adorned the perimeter of the room.
C A Private Collection of Important Design
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